Favorite Bands/Musicians:Earl, Don, Ralph, JD, Jim Mills. I like the "old stuff" and older styles. I admire many of today's younger "progressive" artists, but I have always enjoyed collecting records from the 1920s through to the early 1960s. That fifty year period of American music is my favorite: Bluegrass, Old Time, Blues, Hokum, Rags, Swing, Hillbilly, Country, & Rockabilly. That's for me!

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Size: 5,158kb, uploaded 1/30/2010 11:47:22 PMGenre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-TimeTom Berghan Clawhammer - Banjo: Double C,
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Joe Coleman, a shoemaker, was accused of stabbing his wife to death near the town of Slate Fork, Adair County, Kentucky, as recorded in the Burkesville Herald Almanac for 1899. Convicted on circumstantial evidence and the testimony of his sister-in-law who was living with them at the time, Coleman was tried in nearby Cumberland County and sentenced to death. While being driven to the place of execution in a two-wheeled ox cart, Coleman sat on his coffin and played a tune that has come down as "Coleman's March." Coleman protested his innocence to the last.
Also attached to the tune is the legend that before Coleman was hanged he offered his fiddle to anyone who could play the tune as well as he, and at least one source identified a Kentucky fiddler named Franz Prewitt as the recipient. Prewitt's descendants remembered him as having been indeed a fine fiddler.
The tune dates back to the 18th century British Isles. It is known by various names, one being “Old Hickory” after President Andrew Jackson.

Danny (retired happily),It would be my pleasure to teach it to you. I will always do my level best for a Veteran. Thank you for your service! Coleman’s March is a pretty tune indeed, and it is no harder than walking.

I assume by “picture” you mean my avatar. That is the famous Gus Cannon of Cannon’s Jug Stompers (obscure now, but once famous). When I was a teenager growing up in the mid to late sixties I collected all of Gus’s recordings. He was my hero. Then, when I was 18, I hitch-hiked to Memphis Tennessee to study music with Gus. I loved Gus very much and I still do now. Gus wrote many great songs you’ve probably heard but maybe not know he wrote. Remember “Walk Right In, Sit Right Down?” That is one of Gus’s songs! My favorite is “Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home.

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